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project selections 2016

samuel eliasson architecture and engineering

oculus rapidly deployable refugee shelters

STUDIO

Material and Detail

CREDITS

15 ECTS

PERIOD

Fall 2015

EXAMINER

Arch. Daniel Norell Arch. Jonas Lundberg

Assembling pieces.

COURSE PROGRAM The studio Material and Detail is focusing on digital design and fabrication with the goal of building a 1:1 prototype of a pavilion like building with help of different kinds of machines. This year, the aim was to design a rapidly deployable refugee shelter in EPS foam. After four weeks of workshops the whole studio was divided into teams, which each has to design a proposal for a shelter.

GENERAL AMBITION The winning project got its inspiration from the vernacular beehive houses in Syria and combined that with the “pull out�-concept of a telescope. When realizing the winning project, we took the task of evaluating detail design. I focused on the structural concept and joint detailing. We worked with different CNC-machines and a industry robot to cut out the foam the joint details and the flooring.

Actual prototype behind 1:10 model.

Night time photo.

Me wotking with the joints between the foam pieces.

Programming the KUKA robot to cut out the shelter flooring.

hendeca shelters rapidly deployable refugee shelters

STUDIO

Material and Detail

CREDITS

15 ECTS

PERIOD

Fall 2015

EXAMINER

Arch. Daniel Norell Arch. Jonas Lundberg

Concept models of the hendecahedron space-filling typology

COURSE PROGRAM The task was to design a shelter-like structure that could work as a temporary refugee shelter. The shelter was to be designed as a home for one or more families and contain basic functions.

The studio focused on digitial design and material manufacturing logic with the goau was that the structure was going to be built in four weeks.

GENERAL AMBITION We had the idea of working with a system of different modules that could be put together to form an unit.

Based on that idea, we worked with different kinds of plane and space-filling geometries to find a suitable typology. We fell for the bisymmetric hendecahedron, a space-filling geometry with rather many architectural qualities like its inclined walls that can contain functions and create different kinds of semi-private shaded outdoor spaces.

key principles of the hendecahedron

BASE GEOMETRY The hendecahedron is sapce-filling geometry consisting of 11 faces.

1:10 Model of a two moudule unit.

MODULARITY AND ASSEMBLY The same geometry creates different spaces and a variety of outdoor spaces.

VERTICALITY The geometry lets on make use of building height to work with camp densification.

NICHES The subtractive logic of foam cutting creates niches and functions in the walls.

1:10 Model. View through a window. The model also shows the post-tensioned metal band.

urban fabric

COURTYARDS AND PUBLIC SPACES Different kinds of open spaces are placed in urban fabric. This creates a mixture of private and public spaces.

SHELTERS The shelters are placed in four different variations to create a feel of a nonrepetetive landscape.

MAIN ROADS / QUARTERS The existing road structure of the AlZatari Camp is used to create a well functioning quarter structure.

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assembly and structure

ADDITIONAL SHELTERS Possible additions to the original shelter.

THE PIECES Each module is assembled of 11 pieces.

METAL BANDS The module is held together by metal bands that are post-tensioned.

FUNCTIONS The walls include furniture and functions of the shelter.

TRANSPORT The pieces are made to fit on a standard truck ASSEMBLY The pieces are small and light enough to be put together by hand

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ljuspunkt competition - nya ögon på betong

STUDIO

Models of Architecture

CREDITS

4.5 ECTS

PERIOD

Fall 2015

EXAMINER

Peter Lindblom

COMPETITION ROGRAM The competition was announced by the Swedish Association of Architects and the Swedish Concrete Association. The idea was to design a small pavilion containing a café. The pavilion was to be built and put up in a mass hall on the yearly concrete conference in Stockholm 2016.

The program focused on innovation and rapid deployment.

Example of light raster.

Sketch Model 1:100

GENERAL AMBITION We wanted to show a new side of the concrete by making it light and transparent. This was made by a thin roof standing on massive columns. Inspired by the light seen through the crowns of the trees in a forest, we wanted to create lightpaths coming down from the roof.

This was made by subract the solid, by making holes in the concrete roof. The light paths are used to strengthen and steer the existing movements of the conference hall.

We experimented with different kinds of pattern to achieve the wanted effect.

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Light fills the room between the trail and tree crowns. On the ground bright spots that reflects the foliage above are formed.

In the exhibition hall is the movement stands in the centre when visitors walk from hall to hall. The visitors’ movement are led with help of light trails on the ground.

A light raster in the roof projects the motion on the floor. Between the paths that are formed pillars like trees, which support the roof are put.

aniara opera in Montreal

COURSE

Bachelor Thesis

CREDITS

15 ECTS

PERIOD

Spring 2013

EXAMINER

Prof. Morten Lund

COURSE PROGRAM The project is a contribution to a contest that annually is announced by the American Acoustical Association.

The task this year was to design an Opera House in downtown Montreal. The program stated, beside that the building should contain scenes, workshops, dressing rooms etc, that much of the focus should be on put the acoustics of the building.

GENERAL AMBITION By somehow connect with existing movements and place the building on a natural short cut across the square, we wanted to create an opera that is inviting, open to all and has a clear public external space as the core of the whole complex.

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The building site for the opera complex is located next to a technical college in the southern end of downtown Montreal. Heavily trafficked roads surround this block and a large tunnel lies north of the lot. In addition to road traffic, the most critical external noise source is the commercial air traffic that passes approximately 500m above the opera house.

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House manager’s office Box office Costume, shop Rehearsal room Soloist rehearsal room Dressing room, orchestra Dressing room, chorus Dressing room, soloist Public corridor Entrance foyer Cloak room Auditorium Orchestra pit Stage Backstage Main storage Staff corridor Mechanical equip. room Loading dock Metal workshop Carpenter’s workshop Paint shop Scene assembly Break room Technicians’ booth Dressing room, 4-person 2nd floor walkway Green room Landing Scenic lounge Seating vestibule

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The rehearsal room is to be used for both orchestral and vocal practice, as well as a secondary performance space for smaller concerts. The room has changeable absorptive/diffusive acoustic panels on the lower side walls in order to permit both long and short reverberation time settings, 1.4 s and 0.9 s respectively. The second floor has a shallow balcony allowing for additional seating and versatility when necessary.

The corridor wall has the same expression as the façade; the laths work as a resonant absorber at low frequencies and as a cylindrical diffuser for vocal frequencies. Openings in the roof bring daylight into the corridor, which then create reliefs on the lath walls.

Absorptiveceilingtilesmaintainsufficiently low noise levels

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REHEARSAL ROOM REVERBERATION TIME 1.6

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WALL PANEL ABSORPTION COMPARISON 1

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>500 Hz Laths 40-70 mm Metal frame Air gap 0-170 mm Absorber 100 mm Concrete 100 mm Mineral wool 100 mm Concrete 200 mm Air gap 20mm Gypsum 2x13 mm Woodenfloorsandrisers

Slanted wooden ceiling

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tutoring bachelor students worked as a tutor for the bachelor workshop Exploring Architecture. Spring This spring I worked as a tutor in the two week workshop Exploring Architecture. The goal of the workshop was for the students to use parametric design software like Rhinoceros and Grasshopper and combine that with 3d printers, CNC-machines and laser cutters to design a pavilion prototype using different design logics.

I had several rhino and grasshopper tutorials and was also supporting the student on different design issues.

The workshop was very appreciated and we will do another one later this semester.

form finding software developing project-based developing of FDM/DR-tools. 2013-2014.

At the autumn 2013 and until now I have been working on developing form finding tools as a school project.

The goal was to apply new functions and boundary conditions based on various research, to well-known cable-net form finding methods like Force density method or Dynamic Relaxation. This would end up in different programs made for an 3D-CAD environment. I used Rhinoceros as a base for the plug in programs and wrote them in python.

It has been a very interesting project, where I had the oppurtunity to even more develop my digital modeling/ scripting skills, as well as the knowledge of classic form finding and linear algebra.

the initial grid with fixed nodes in the corners

the relaxed equlibrium structure with the same force density in every edge

the relaxed nodes with the same FD in every edge

the structure is coulor coded to show the different stress sizes

larger grid with fixed points and fixes corners as well as an evenly distributed load on the free nodes

the structure is always changeable , here with adjusted stiffness in different bars